The Piano Sonata in

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, Op. posth. 80, was written by Russian composer

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , group=n ( ; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. He wrote some of the most popu ...

in 1865, his last year as a student at the St Petersburg Conservatory. The sonata in its original form was not published in Tchaikovsky's lifetime; it was published in 1900 by

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, and given the posthumous opus number 80. Tchaikovsky transposed and orchestrated the third movement of the sonata to create the scherzo of his Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13.

Movements

# ''Allegro con fuoco'' (

) # ''Andante'' (

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) # ''Allegro vivo'' (

) The sonata ends in the tonic major, in the

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spelling of D-flat major.IMSLP.

References

Tchaikovsky Research

External links

* Compositions by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , group=n ( ; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. He wrote some of the most popu ...

1865 compositions Compositions in C-sharp minor Compositions by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky published posthumously {{Russia-stub